"You trust me?" he asked, eyes turning soft once they made contact. "Maj, I-I-" "I said do you trust me, Lucky?" he repeated, voice hard. "...yes," she breathed out, and his next words came without hesitation, sending a chill down her spine. "Then shoot."

They call each other friends, but they secretly hate one another. Follow through secrets, drama, death, obsession, jealousy, and wealth as failure always tags behind everyone's paths.

After being kidnapped by two mystery men, Riley finds herself in the middle of danger when her father touches something that doesn't belong to him. Now Riley has to be held as a hostage until her father gives back what he has taken. Will Riley escape this drama in one piece or will she be brought down further than she already is?

If the Projects could talk, they would have told her eons ago; that the road she had been headed down would lead to her own self destruction. They would have warned her, in light whispers that the friends she called her own would have betrayed her; that the family she kept would have abandoned her, and that the man she had found herself falling in love with; would have easily proven to be her biggest downfall. They would have told her from a young age, before she had gotten caught up in the life that no one could escape; that things don't always go according to plan, and in the projects: There are no happy endings. But sadly; the walls surrounding her everyday childhood had not, or could not utter a single word. Therefore; the woman had received no forewarning to the hell her life would soon become the moment she had been birthed, and instead she had found out the hard way, by simply: Living it. 𝐒𝐓𝐀𝐑𝐓𝐄𝐃: 𝐉𝐀𝐍𝐔𝐀𝐑𝐘 𝟏, 𝟐𝟎𝟐𝟏

❝THE REALIZATION THAT EACH RANDOM PASSERBY IS LIVING A LIFE AS VIVID AND COMPLEX AS YOUR OWN.❞